New study reveals Google Ranking Secrets

I just got emailed this... looks pretty interesting.
Most of it just reaffirms what I know but the bit about H2 - H6 tags I wasn't aware of.

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Sistrix analyzed the influence of the following web page elements: web page title, web page body, headline tags, bold and strong tags, image file names, images alt text, domain name, path, parameters, file size, inbound links and PageRank.

* Keywords in the title tag seem to be important for high rankings on Google. It is also important that the targeted keywords are mentioned in the body tag, although the title tag seems to be more important.

* Keywords in H2-H6 headline tags seem to have an influence on the rankings while keywords in H1 headline tags don't seem to have an effect.

* Using keywords in bold or strong tags seems to have a slight effect on the top rankings. Web pages that used the keywords in image file names often had higher rankings. The same seems to be true for keywords in image alt attributes.

* Websites that use the targeted keyword in the domain name often had high rankings. It might be that these sites get many inbound links with the domain name as the link text.

* Keywords in the file path don't seem to have a positive effect on the Google rankings of the analyzed web sites. Web pages that use very few parameters in the URL (?id=123, etc.) or no parameters at all tend to get higher rankings than URLs that contain many parameters.

* The file size doesn't seem to influence the ranking of a web page on Google although smaller sites tend to have slightly higher rankings.

* It's no surprise that the number of inbound links and the PageRank had a large influence on the page rankings on Google. The top result on Google has usually about four times as many links as result number 11.

Source: http://www.free-seo-news.com/newsletter265.htm#facts

 

That's interesting. Thanks for sharing

 

Good things to be aware of, thanks for sharing with us.

 

nice seo tips thanks for share, all of them work great if any one know any hidden tricks also plz share.

 

Do you know more about this H2-H6 headline tags theory? Interesting.

 

very interesting , thanks for sharing with us.

 

IMO the only newness could be the info about H1 vs H2-H6 tags.

 

Thats right... thats the only one new news for me too..

 

what is new about this it has been posted here a lot of time

 

No secret here other than what have been discussed over and over.

 

Thanks for sharing

I have posted another longer list of SEO practices that I found on net that contains more information.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=3207620

 

excellent stuff

 

a good read

 

Thanks for sharing..good read and will put it to good used.

 

H2-H6 tags info is new to me. interesting.

 

Excellent read. Curious about accuracy on H1 v. H2. Any opinions?

 

thx for post

 

thank you..!
I learned two interesting point from you..
first is keywords in H1 headline tags don't seem to have an effect.
two; Web pages that use very few parameters in the URL (?id=123, etc.) or no parameters at all tend to get higher rankings than URLs that contain many parameters.
I already know the rest..

 

<H2>-<h6> is new to me, thank you for the post.

 

Not really new, buddy. Infact all of these practices are very old and traditional - as there's a saying build a user-centric website - Google will certainly appreciate it.

Thanks for sharing anyway.